Mowbray baronets

The Mowbray baronetcy, of Warennes Wood, Mortimer, in the County of Berkshire, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 May 1880 for the politician John Mowbray. He served as Judge Advocate General from 1858 to 1859 and from 1866 to 1868. He was Member of Parliament for Oxford University from 1868, and was Father of the House of Commons from 1898 to 1899. Born John Cornish, he had assumed by Royal licence the surname of Mowbray (which was that of his father-in-law) in lieu of his patronymic in 1847.

The 2nd Baronet was also a politician, Member of Parliament for Prestwich from 1886 to 1895 and for Lambeth, Brixton division from 1900 to 1906. The title became extinct on the death of the 6th Baronet on 15 September 2022.

Mowbray baronets, of Warennes Wood (1880)

Coat of arms of Mowbray of Warennes Wood
Crest
1st, An oak tree Or, pendent from the tree an escutcheon gules charged with a lion’s head erased Argent (Mowbray); 2nd, a Cornish chough between two branches of laurel proper (Cornish).
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st and 4th: Gules, a lion rampant Ermine, two flaunches Or, each charged with three billets in pale Azure (Mowbray); 2nd and 3rd: Per pale Azure and Sable, a chevron embattled, between in chief two roses, and in base a cross pattée Or (Cornish).
Motto
Suo stat robore virtus (Virtue stands in its own strength); Deus pascit corvos (God feeds the ravens)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (99th ed.). London: Burke's Peerage Ltd. and Shaw Publishing. 1949. p. 1445.
  2. ↑ MOWBRAY
  3. 1 2 "Mowbray, Sir John Robert". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ↑ "Mowbray, Rt Hon. Sir John Robert". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ↑ "Mowbray, Sir Robert Gray Cornish". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ↑ "Mowbray, Sir Reginald Ambrose". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ↑ "Mowbray, Rev. Sir Edmund George Lionel". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ↑ "Mowbray, Sir George Robert". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. ↑ "Baronet Fined". The Times. 28 August 1946. p. 2. Sir George Robert Mowbray, 47,... president of Reading University Council, was at Bow Street yesterday fined £20 and ordered to pay £5 5s. costs for importuning men for an immoral purpose at Piccadilly Circus Underground station.[dead link]
  10. ↑ Burke's Peerage, vol. 2 (2003), p. 2,813
  11. ↑ Debrett's peerage (1921).